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Salvage and reuse in action

By Claire McElwain

Inquirer and Mirror – (April 16, 2025) Thanks to an innovative partnership to encourage sustainability, salvage and reuse, the Community Foundation for Nantucket, Remain and Boston Building Resources are joining forces to deliver nearly 40 pieces of high-quality office furniture to nonprofit organizations across the island. Read the full story here.

Envision Resilience Participants Design for Vulnerable Coastlines

By Claire McElwain

Metropolis (April 23, 2025) —The climate crisis will not be solved in a silo. Designing for the what if demands an interdisciplinary approach, with landscape architects, environmental scientists, design professionals and likeminded disciplines operating in tandem while tackling one interrelated challenge after the next. Read the full story here.

Design students float climate resiliency ideas for Casco Bay

By Claire McElwain

Portland, South Portland (Feb 20, 2025) — Floating communities, breakwaters and parks. New water taxi services, replanted eelgrass beds and sauna-based tourism. Reclaimed tank farms turned into ponds, marshes or parks. Covering shoreline bluffs with native plants that draw pollinators and prevent erosion. Read the full story here.

Remain spins off coastal resilience group

By Claire McElwain

The Inquirer & Mirror (Feb 17, 2025) — Envision Resilience, the annual design studio that for the last five years has brought together students and coastal communities to imagine a resilient future in the face of climate change, will spin off from its parent organization Remain into an independent organization, the two groups announced last…

Current Nature: Resilient Restoration

By Claire McElwain

Nantucket Current (Feb 2, 2025) — On the banks of Long Pond, the Linda Loring Nature Foundation has been working on a restoration project that provides an example of how sea level rise can affect even seemingly inland areas of our island. Read the full story here.

New Year, New You: Nantucket Conservation Foundation

By Claire McElwain

The Inquirer & Mirror (Jan 30, 2024) If you’re looking for wide open spaces and trails to explore during the quiet winter months, look no further than the properties owned by the Nantucket Conservation Foundation, an organization that stewards more than a third of the island’s total acreage. Read the full story here.

Weekly meal program starting up at The Hive

By Claire McElwain

The Inquirer & Mirror (Jan 20, 2025) —The Hive, the commercial cooking hub on Amelia Drive founded to help island food businesses stretch their revenue streams, is hoping a new initiative will give its members a boost through the slow season. Read the full story here.